Questão jurídica principal
Whether the request for legal aid was admissible before any appeal proceedings were pending.
Decisão extraída
The request was filed prematurely because no appeal procedure had yet been opened before the Social Insurance Court.
Fundamentação extraída
Under Art. 18 LPA-VD, the court may grant legal aid only in proceedings open before it. Since no appeal had been filed, the request was premature and therefore inadmissible.